11.   By getting preventive care, they could avoid needless hospitalizations for easily treatable conditions.

12.   Critics also worry that consumers will not only tend to their hangnails at home, but delay mammograms and other preventive care as well.

13.   Deaths from strokes have abated with preventive care and better rehabilitation.

14.   During the convention this week, he stopped by a diabetes screening booth sponsored by Lilly and other firms to draw some attention to the benefits of preventive care.

15.   Failing to have a regular doctor, the researchers said, led some to neglect preventive care.

16.   For-profit HMOs are more likely than nonprofit HMOs to skimp on preventive care to maximize profits, Harvard University researchers reported in a study.

17.   For years, public hospitals and clinics in Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, El Paso and other Texas cities have offered preventive medical care to illegal immigrants.

18.   For one thing, capitation gives doctors a stronger incentive to provide preventive care.

19.   Future preventive care coverage would be recommended by the National Institute of Medicine and added to Medicare benefits unless specifically rejected by Congress.

20.   For those without health insurance, preventive care is an unaffordable luxury.